An Educational Center & Retreat for

People to Visit and Interact with Animals & Nature

THE VISION FOR NOAH'S PARK RETREAT

Noah’s Park Retreat will be a facility located in Goshen, NY where people will be able to escape for a brief and relaxing educational experience, commune with nature, meet and directly interact with animals, and enjoy nature in a beautiful garden/conservatory setting.

Staying at the Retreat can be a healing and spiritual experience whether you come alone or with your family.  We would like to have a building where people can lodge.  Our facility would be a very family friendly and intimate family experience.  A path would lead to the animal residences and fields on our property where people could learn about horses, peacocks, guinea hens, emus, toucan, blue-front amazon parrot, wallabies, kinkajous, provost squirrel, squirrel monkeys, marmoset monkeys, tortoises, pot-bellied pigs, dogs, etc., by holding, petting, feeding, and touching the animals.

We would like to present animals from all over the world, and explain how our development, commercialization, pollution, pet trade, and mining have affected them.  At the same time, we would like to show how responsible business practices can co-exist with the animal world.

Our future retreat plans include developing day camps into a weekend family camp.  Since children are our future, we believe that teaching them about the proper care of animals would help them so that as they become adults, they will value animals, foster the proper treatment of animals, and realize where things come from and how our actions are impacting our globe and eco-systems.  At the end of their experience, teachers and students will be invited to sit with our staff and discuss what they have learned.